Thread: Short barrel 6.5prc vs .270win

You could always just thread your 270 at it's current length and try it for a couple of hunts. If you don't like it you still have options.

I bush hunt with a suppressed 20 and a suppressed 22 inch rifle no problems.

Originally Posted by 7mm tragic

You could always just thread your 270 at it's current length and try it for a couple of hunts. If you don't like it you still have options.

I bush hunt with a suppressed 20 and a suppressed 22 inch rifle no problems.

stop being so logical....... terrible suggestion,it will not give much extra money to the retailers or gunsmiths.... and the OP wont have to go and buy new dies and supplies for the new rifle..he will even be able to use up old loads so no benifit to retailers there either..terrible suggestion.

For reference. 6.5 prc SAAMI chamber but over 3" ammo lenght due to being able to in a XM lenght Defiance action.
153 grain atip, 22" barrel 2950fps....can crack 3000fps but starting to get hard on primer pockets.

the 6.5PRC will do better, however for only 400m you can easily use a 16" 6.5 creedmoor and save on powder and recoil and plenty of factory ammo if you get too lazy to reload or cant find primers

if you aren't hellbent on a tikka, then save some weight, powder and recoil and get a 6.5 Grendel in a howa mini or one of the new 6mm ARC - Assuming you are hunting NZ species that is

The fundamentals of it are this:
If you want velocity out of a short barrel, you have to go big in the cartridge that you’re firing. Yep, .308 etc lose less velocity when short, but a bigger cartridge with a short barrel will still gross a higher muzzle velocity.

It just depends on what you’re chasing in outcome….

Go 300wsm, fast and fat